CHristos Alexiou

Christos Alexiou was born in 1930 in Skliro Agias, Thessaly. At a young age, he participated in the National Resistance as a member of EPON. He and his family faced persecution during the turbulent years following the Liberation, which interrupted his studies. He founded the pioneering "Athens Publishing Institute" in 1956. From 1963 to 1988, he worked at the University of Birmingham, where he collaborated with Hellenist George Thomson, among others, teaching modern Greek literature, supervising postgraduate theses, and organizing the Library of Modern Greek Studies. He has published a two-volume work on the demotic language (in collaboration with Peter Bien, among others) and studies on topics and figures of modern Greek literature, including folk songs, Palamas, Sikelianos, Kazantzakis, Varnalis, and Ritsos. He served as a visiting professor at the Universities of Ioannina and Thessaly. Since 1996, he has been the editor-in-chief of the literary magazine "Themata Logotechnias," published by Govostis Editions. Additionally, he is active in supporting individuals with special needs in Greece and abroad. He is an honorary member of the Society of Authors.